Appy, Chris
This rich oral history of the war features 135 accounts from Vietnamese peasants, soldiers, and leaders as well as American veterans, members of the antiwar movement, and figures such as William Westmoreland, John McCain, Oliver Stone, and Tim O’Brien.
Viking, 2003

Appy,
Chris
One of the only books to explore in detail the lives of the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam-where they came from, why they went, and what life was like from basic training to coming home. University of North Carolina, 1993

Clifford, Geoffrey, with text by John
Balaban
A pictoral travelogue of Vietnam at peace. Balaban’s text explores the history, culture, geography and people in a concise manner, accenting Clifford’s vivid photographs. Chronicle Books, 1989

Herring, George
A condensed version of the infamous classified Pentagon Study of American involvement in Vietnam, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times in 1971. Compiled by one of the foremost American scholars of the war. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993

Kissinger, Henry
Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives a
single in-depth inside view of the Vietnam
War, personally collected, annotated, revised,
and updated from his own bestselling memoirs.
Simon & Schuster, 2003

Mariscal, George
This first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia features more than sixty short stories, poems, speeches and articles. The grandson of Mexican immigrants, Mariscal was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 and served the following year in Viet Nam.
University of California Press, 1999
(Available at Waldo
Library, WMU, and Upjohn
Library, Kalamazoo College*)

Nicosia, Gerald
A vivid portrait of a generation of American soldiers who faced rejection by the nation in whose name they fought and virtual abandonment by the government that sent them to fight in Southeast Asia. Crown Publishers, 2001

TeCube, Leroy
A detailed, almost passionless narrative of the author’s combat-heavy tour of duty in the Vietnam War. TeCube, a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe of northern New Mexico, was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam from January 1968 to January 1969, and his salvation was the discipline and strength of his native culture, which he drew upon in his darkest times. University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Tick, Edward The Golden Tortoise takes readers on
journeys through Viet Nam today, visiting its
sights to replace images of suffering with
images of healing. It records the fascinating,
rapid, hopeful and troubling changes taking
place in Viet Nam today as it heals its war
legacy and struggles with the transition from
a society that was closed, controlled and
rural to one that is open, consumer and
technology-driven. Tick writes of
battlefields, Buddhist shrines, schools and
villagers, expressing himself in the haibun
form of Basho that combines travel narrative
with poetry. As an Asian form of travel
writing, it is ideally suited to his exquisite
report on a pilgrimage where we may walk
tedious miles for one moment that revivifies
the soul. Red Hen Press, 2005

Tick, Edward
Claiming that war produces far more casualties than we realize, Dr. Tick faces head-on the paralyzing effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, and suggests that only when veterans can nurture a positive identity based in compassion and forgiveness can they find peace and healing. Quest Books, 2005

Verrone, Richard Burks and Laura M.
Calkins
This is a stunning collection of absorbing and
evocative eyewitness accounts of the war in
Southeast Asia, America's domestic protests
against it, and the costs of the conflict to
those who survived it. David & Charles
Publishers, 2005.

Walker, Keith
Some 15,000 women served in Vietnam during the war, mostly military nurses and WACs, but also Red Cross and USO volunteers; the lesson from their words is that even the most casual contact with war has a devastating effect.
Presidio Press, 1985

Wallace, Terry
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this
topic." (UPI) The national bestseller
that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the
black soldiers' perspective.
Ballantine Books, 1985

Ybarra, Lea
One of the most decorated groups that served in the
Vietnam War, Chicanos fought and died in numbers
well out of proportion to their percentage of the
U.S. population. This book presents substantial
interviews with Chicano Vietnam veterans and their
families that explore the men's experiences in
combat, the war's effects on the Chicano community,
and the veterans' postwar lives.
University of Texas Press, 2004
(Available at Waldo
Library, WMU*)